Word: parnassian
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...another reaction occurred which gave rise to the Parnassian School. Their work was made more difficult by the growing strength of the prose realism with its Stendhals, Balzacs, Daudets and Zolas. Nothing was more natural than that they should be conservative and pay much attention to verse form. The leading members of this group are Coppee, Anatole France, Sully, Prudhomme, Heredia, Sylvestre and Leon Dierk...